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Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 2349.

  • Robert H. Schuller What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Hermann Hesse What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Bre Pettis What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Bubba Watson What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Anita Hill What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Chief Seattle What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Hannah Arendt What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Robertson Davies What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Boy George What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Whatever good things we build end up building us.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Tony Buzan Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.
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  • Carlos Santana When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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